The European Union imposed sanctions against 10 persons who have ties with the Syria government. Now the list includes 217 people. This was reported on October 27 by the press service of the EU Council. The names of persons against which new sanctions are imposed will be published on October 28.

One of the most famous Chinese yachtsmen Go Chuan went missing in the Hawaiian region, trying to cross the Pacific Ocean alone, Channel Newsasia reports. The connection with GO was lost on Tuesday, October 25, and his abandoned trimaran was discovered near the coast of the United States. According to the report of American rescuers, the 97-foot trimaran from Tsindao drifts through the waves a hundred kilometers west of the Hawaiian islands.

The Islamic State Terrorist group forbidden in the Russian Federation (IGIL, ISIS, Daish ), which took responsibility for the armed attack , committed on October 23 in Nizhny Novgorod on Academician Sakharov Street, published a video on the Internet in which an unknown man claims that it was he who took part in the attack. This was reported by the SITE Intel Group monitoring group with reference to the news agency IG AMAQ.

US President Barack Obama discussed with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan the coordination of efforts in Iraq to fight against the Islamic State terrorist group (IG, Daish , is prohibited in Russia). This was announced on Thursday night by the White House of the United States. "The president welcomed the ongoing dialogue between Turkey and Iraq in order to determine the appropriate level and form of Turkey’s participation in the efforts of the coalition against the IRA in Iraq.

The UN Children's Fund announced the death of 22 children and six teachers in attacks on the Syrian school, said in a statement by the Executive Director of the Anthony Lake fund posted on the organization’s website . "Twenty -two children and six teachers, according to the information received, were killed today, when the building of their school was repeatedly attacked in Idlib, Syria," said the Executive Director of the Fund. He specified that what happened is a tragedy and a war crime.

In one of the sectors of the Zenit Arena stadium under construction in St. Petersburg, a flood occurred during the launch of heating. One of the employees of the stadium on Krestovsky Island, who directly participated in the works, spoke about the incident to the publication. According to him, two radiators did not work with a test launch of heating. It turned out that the batteries were closed to themselves and were not connected to the main highway.

The Ministry of Sports of France has banned the holding of battles in the country according to the rules of mixed martial arts (MMA), Sky Sports reports citing a press release from the ministry on Wednesday. The ministry strictly regulated the holding of martial arts, announcing the octagonal cage used in the UFC championship, and a number of specific techniques used in the fights.

In St. Petersburg, unknown, with the help of bottles with incendiary mixture, set fire to the business center building on 55 Savushkina Street, where the "troll factory" is located, presumably sponsored by the famous restaurateur Evgeny Prigozhin, which the media is called "Putin's personal cook." The incident occurred on the night of October 26, but information about this appeared only two days later.

Sapsan high-speed train, next from Moscow to St. Petersburg, was stuck in the Novgorod region. In the train wagons, the light and ventilation were turned off, it becomes stuffy, the correspondent of the Flashnord agency said from the train. The train N778 Moscow-St. Petersburg was stuck due to snow that fell in the Novgorod region and subsequent warming, which entailed icing the rails. At 22:16 Moscow time, the train N778 smoothly braked, after which the main lighting went out.

Russian President Vladimir Putin provided Russian citizenship to the Ukrainian businessman Eduard Shifrin and his 16-year-old daughter. The corresponding decree is published on the official portal of legal information. "I decide to adopt the following persons to the citizenship of the Russian Federation: Shifrin Eduard, born on July 12, 1960 in Ukraine, with her daughter Sofia Rosa, born on May 6, 2000 in the UK," the decree text says. The document is dated October 26, 2016.

Samsung published a report on the financial results of the III quarter of the current year, fixing the lowest level of operating profit over the past two years, Reuters reports. According to the press release, the company's quarterly operating profit amounted to $ 4.57 billion, decreasing by 30% compared to the same period in 2015.

In the Volnovakh district of the Donetsk region, the police find out the circumstances of the death of a young child who went outside at the street at night and could not return to the house on his own. The boy received a strong hypothermia of the body and the doctors who came to the scene considered him dead. At the moment, the police have already opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 15, paragraph 2 of part 2 of Art. 115 ("murder of a minor"), Art.

The battalion of the US Ground Forces will be transferred from Germany to Poland as part of the expansion of the military presence of NATO forces in Eastern Europe. This was announced on Wednesday at a press conference in Brussels by US Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, following the results of the first day of negotiations with NATO colleagues. The head of the Pentagon recalled that such a decision was made by members of the North Atlantic Alliance at the July summit in Warsaw.

The French authorities are confident that there were more than 20 children on an attack on a school in the Syrian province of Idlib, as a result of which the on the eve of Bashar al -Assad or Russia. Such a statement was made by the French Foreign Minister Jean-Mark Ero, reports Reuters. “Who is responsible? In any case, this is not an opposition, because you need planes to launch bombs. It was either Assada mode or Russia,” Ero explained.

The Finnish stuntman Kivimyaki set a world record in the "lateral Vili" - driving on two wheels of a car. He accelerated on his diesel sedan BMW 330 to 186.269 km/h, according to the official website of the Guinness Book of Records The previous achievement of 181.25 km/h belongs to the Swede Horan Eliason and his Volvo 850 Turbo. That record was not able to beat for almost 20 years - since 1997.